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Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad

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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…

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… At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
… markedly, reflecting a decline in his already weak health. Darwin then began punctuating letters …
… am languid & bedeviled … & hate everybody’. Although Darwin did continue his botanical …
… by the publication in February of books by his friends Charles Lyell, the respected geologist, and …
… from ‘some Quadrumanum animal’, as he put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] …
… Britain’s scientific circles following the publication of Lyell’s and Huxley’s books. Three …
… Origin had (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] ). In the …
… that of inferior animals made him ‘groan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Darwin …
… sentence from the second edition of Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863b, p. 469), published in …
… were himself, Hooker, Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, and John Lubbock. Honours abroad …
… of the Royal Society ( see letter from Edward Sabine to John Phillips, 12 November 1863 ). …
… year with the Hertfordshire nurseryman Thomas Rivers. John Scott Darwin had found a …
… of hybridity and sterility at the end of the previous year. John Scott, a gardener at the Royal …
… the results of which were published in 1868 ( see letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] ). …
… hoped would counteract Huxley’s criticism ( letter from John Scott, 23 July [1863] ). Darwin …
… Darwin had also encouraged him to write ( see letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] ). In this …
… that your paper will have permanent value’ ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ). Scott received …
… very slowly recovering, but am very weak’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [29 September? 1863] ). …
… Thomas’s Hospital, London ( letter from George Busk, [ c. 27 August 1863] ). Brinton, who …

Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics

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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…

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… On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species , …
… surprised both the publisher and the author. One week later Darwin was stunned to learn that the …
… the book, thinking that it would be nice easy reading.’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] ). …
… his views. ‘One cannot expect fairness in a Reviewer’, Darwin commented to Hooker after reading an …
… he told Hooker, did not at all concern his main argument ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1860] …
… his theory would have been ‘ utterly smashed’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 July [1860] ). (A …
… from right principles of scientific investigation.—’ ( letter to J. S. Henslow, 8 May [1860] ). …
… it comes in time to be admitted as real.’ ( letter to C. J. F. Bunbury, 9 February [1860] ). This …
… . Fawcett asserted that Darwin’s theory accorded well with John Stuart Mill’s exposition of the …
… current knowledge could not illuminate this ‘mystery’. Charles Lyell worried, among other things, …
… did not necessarily lead to progression ( letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [and 19 February 1860] ). To …
… of reasoning about global change. Darwin also knew that Lyell was a powerful potential ally. Indeed, …
… because more accustomed to reasoning.’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 18 May 1860 ). Darwin …
… is in same predicament with other animals’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] )— he and …
… to hear Samuel Wilberforce, the bishop of Oxford, reply to John William Draper’s paper giving a …
… Darwin about further, less dramatic incidents, including John Lubbock’s retort to Wilberforce on the …
… of the scientifically literate clergymen Baden Powell and Charles Kingsley attested. Moreover, …
… I shall improve the Book considerably.—’ ( letter to John Murray, 5 December [1860] ). Although he …
… to convert people under 20 year,’ he told his friend John Innes, ‘though firmly convinced now …
… good judge coming some little way with me.’ ( letter to John Innes, 28 December [1860] ). …

Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments

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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…

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… In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
… letters on climbing plants to make another paper. Darwin also submitted a manuscript of his …
… on a paper on Verbascum (mullein) by CD’s protégé, John Scott, who was now working in India. …
… also a serious dispute between two of Darwin’s friends, John Lubbock and Charles Lyell . These …
… The death of Hugh Falconer Darwin’s first letter to Hooker of 1865 suggests that the family …
… having all the Boys at home: they make the house jolly’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] …
… had failed to include among the grounds of the award ( see letter from Hugh Falconer to Erasmus …
… his letters to Darwin, and Darwin responded warmly: ‘Your letter is by far the grandest eulogium …
… claimed, important for his enjoyment of life. He wrote to Charles Lyell on 22 January [1865] , …
… Appendix II). In May, he invited a new doctor, John Chapman, to Down and began a course of Chapman’s …
… Variation . In March Darwin wrote to his publisher, John Murray, ‘Of present book I have 7 …
… forward, except the last & concluding one’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] ). In …
… will be ready for the press in the autumn’ ( letter to John Murray, 4 April [1865] ). In early …
… ‘I am never idle when I can do anything’ ( letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865] ). It was not …
… Darwin had received a copy of Müller’s book, Fü r Darwin , a study of the Crustacea with reference …
… questions and suggesting new lines of research. John Scott A similar, though not so …
… … inheritance, reversion, effects of use & disuse &c’, and which he intended to publish in …
… and those of Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, and Charles Bonnet; Darwin wrote back: ‘I do …
… Society of Edinburgh criticising Origin . Like Charles Lyell, who wrote to Darwin on 16 January …
… for existence (ibid., pp. 276–81). Darwin responded to Lyell’s account in some detail ( see letter …
… the end of May, the dispute between Charles Lyell and John Lubbock over alleged plagiarism by …
… in Correspondence vol. 13, Appendix V. In 1865, Lubbock published Prehistoric times , …
… He wrote to Hooker, ‘I doubt whether you or I or any one c d do any good in healing this breach. …
… Hooker’s behalf, ‘He asks if you saw the article of M r . Croll in the last Reader on the …
… ‘As for your thinking that you do not deserve the C[opley] Medal,’ he rebuked Hooker, ‘that I …

Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year

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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…

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… 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working …
… dispute over an anonymous review that attacked the work of Darwin’s son George dominated the second …
… and traveller Alexander von Humboldt’s 105th birthday, Darwin obliged with a reflection on his debt …
… be done by observation during prolonged intervals’ ( letter to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August …
… pleasures of shooting and collecting beetles ( letter from W. D. Fox, 8 May [1874] ). Such …
… And … one looks backwards much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). …
… at Erasmus’s house. The event was led by the medium Charles E. Williams, and was attended by George …
… friend Joseph Dalton Hooker, and finally borrowed one from Charles Lyell ( letter to Smith, Elder …
… Descent was published in November 1874 ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). Though …
… a much reduced price of nine shillings, in line with Charles Lyell’s Student’s elements of geology …
… on subsequent print runs would be very good ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). …
… Quarterly Review discussing works on primitive man by John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor. It …
… of anonymous reviews. Its proprietor was none other than John Murray, Darwin’s publisher. So …
… to review me in a hostile spirit’ ( letter to John Murray, 11 August 1874 ). Darwin was …
… number of the Review & in the same type’ ( letter from John Murray, 12 August 1874 ). George …
… anonymous reviews. While staying with Hooker over Christmas, John Tyndall, professor at and …
… as ‘the natural outflow of his character’ ( letter from John Tyndall, 28 December 1874 ). …
… to purchase the wooded land, which he had been renting from John Lubbock, led to a straining of …
… with lawyers over a doubt that it may have been included in Lubbock’s marriage settlements, the sale …
… in a few hours dissolve the hardest cartilage, bone & meat &c. &c.’ ( letter to W. D. …
… printed appeal for funds, raising £860 ( Circular to John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. …
… Sharpe for promotion at the British Museum ( letter to R. B. Sharpe, 24 November [1874] ). He …
… Tyndall, 12 August [1874] ). Hooker reported that ‘Lubbock’s Lecture went off admirably— but …

Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'

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In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…

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… On 14 May 1856, Charles Darwin recorded in his journal that he ‘Began by Lyell’s advice writing …
… by the preparation of this manuscript. Although advised by Lyell to publish only a brief outline …
… Natural selection . Determined as he was to publish, Darwin nevertheless still felt cautious …
… this process. Still prominent in his immediate circle were Charles Lyell and Joseph Dalton Hooker, …
… specialist in Madeiran entomology, Thomas Vernon Wollaston. Darwin also came to rely on the caustic …
… in London. Natural Selection Not all of Darwin’s manuscript on species has been …
… and other domesticated animals. As Darwin explained to Lyell, his studies, particularly those on …
… the real structure of varieties’, he remarked to Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 September [1856 …
… ‘& I mean to make my Book as perfect as ever I can.’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 8 February [1857] …
… plants, he asked Asa Gray, vary in the United States ( letter to Asa Gray, 2 May 1856 )? What …
… plants pretty effectually’ complained Darwin in 1857 ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [2 May 1857] ). …
… acknowledged when told by his neighbour and young protégé John Lubbock that his method of …
… using a statistically valid method explained to him by Lubbock. The origin of sex Such …
… not a bird be killed (by hawk, lightning, apoplexy, hail &c) with seeds in crop, & it would …
… to William Erasmus Darwin, [26 February 1856] and to Charles Lyell, 3 May [1856] ). …
… 21 [July 1857] ). The problem of careers for his six boys (Charles Waring Darwin, the sixth and …
… Athenæum Club. Several letters touch on the publication of John Tyndall’s theory concerning the …
… phenomenon of cleavage, still unresolved in 1856, with John Phillips and entered into a useful …
… and the preparation of his manuscript ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 1 May 1857 ) seem innocuous and …
… writing in part to establish his priority in this area, for Charles Lyell thought that Wallace’s …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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… | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a …
… community. Here is a selection of letters exchanged between Darwin and his workforce of women …
… Observers Women: Letter 1194 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [12 August …
… silkworm breeds, or peculiarities in inheritance. Letter 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to …
… observations of cats’ instinctive behaviour. Letter 4258 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, …
… to artificially fertilise plants in her garden. Letter 4523 - Wedgwood, L. C. to …
… be made on seeds of Pulmonaria officinalis . Letter 5745 - Barber, M. E. to …
… Egypt. Letter 7223 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., [8 June 1867 - 72] Darwin …
… Henrietta. Letter 7179 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [5 May 1870] …
… pig and her niece’s ears. Letter 8701 - Lubbock, E. F . to Darwin, [1873] …
… the wallpaper. Letter 5756 - Langton, E. & C. to Wedgwood S. E., [after 9 …
… 6815 - Scott, J. to Darwin, [2 July 1869] John Scott responds to Darwin’s queries …
… Letter 1701 - Morris, M. H. to Prior, R. C. A., [17 June 1855] Margaretta Hare Morris …
… Lychnis diurna. Letter 8168 - Ruck, A. R . to Darwin, H., [20 January 1872] …
… lawn. Letter 8224 - Darwin to Ruck, A. R., [24 February 1872] Darwin …
… the Isle of White. Letter 4433 - Wright, Charles to Gray, A., [20, 25, 26 March …
… Letter 1701 - Morris, M. H. to Prior, R. C. A., [17 June 1855] Margaretta Hare Morris …
… - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments he is undertaking …
… J., [5 April 1859] Darwin asks his publisher, John Murray, to forward a manuscript copy of …
… in the future. Letter 4038 - Darwin to Lyell, C., [12-13 March 1863] …
… writing. Letter 3001 - Darwin to Lubbock, J., [28 November 1860] Darwin …
… - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments he is undertaking …

Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest

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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…

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… The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now …
… of scientific admirers at Down, among them Robert Caspary, John Traherne Moggridge, and Ernst …
… Pound foolish, Penurious, Pragmatical Prigs’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [29 December 1866] ). But …
… able to write easy work for about 1½ hours every day’ ( letter to H. B. Jones, 3 January [1866] ). …
… once daily to make the chemistry go on better’ ( letter from H. B. Jones, 10 February [1866] ). …
… regime led to Darwin’s being teased by his neighbour, John Lubbock, about the prospect of riding to …
… with our beagles before the season is over’ ( letter from John Lubbock, 4 August 1866 ). More …
… On 21 February Darwin received notification from John Murray that stocks of the third edition of …
… Henry Walter Bates’s article on mimetic butterflies, Lubbock’s observations of diving Hymenoptera …
… in correspondence throughout the year, as in his remark to Lyell, ‘I quite follow you in thinking …
… in this volume), drawing Darwin, Hooker, and the botanist Charles James Fox Bunbury into the …
… you go on, after the startling apparition of your face at R.S. Soirèe—which I dreamed of 2 nights …
… George Henslow, the son of his Cambridge mentor, John Stevens Henslow, stayed for two days in April …
… In June, Darwin was visited by the orchid specialist John Traherne Moggridge, whose work on the self …
… so you are in for it’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [ c . 10 May 1866] ). Henrietta’s …
… teleological development ( see for example, letter to C. W. Nägeli, 12 June [1866] ). Also in …
… common broom ( Cytisus scoparius ) and the white broom ( C. multiflorus ) in his botanical …
… and June on the subject of Rhamnus catharticus (now R. cathartica ). Darwin had become …
… of separate sexes. William gathered numerous specimens of R. catharticus , the only species of …

Scientific Networks

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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…

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… and colonial authorities. In the nineteenth-century, letter writing was one of the most important …
… when strong institutional structures were largely absent. Darwin had a small circle of scientific …
… in times of uncertainty, controversy, or personal loss. Letter writing was not only a means of …
… section contains two sets of letters. The first is between Darwin and his friend Kew botanist J. D. …
… and he is curious about Hooker’s thoughts. Letter 729 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., …
… to Hooker “it is like confessing a murder”. Letter 736 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D. …
… Darwin and Gray Letter 1674 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 25 Apr [1855] Darwin …
… extract anything valuable from his letters to Darwin and Lyell for Athenæum . He mentioned Darwin …
… Mentors Darwin's close relationship with John Stevens Henslow, the professor of botany …
… he mentored. The first is between Darwin and his neighbour, John Lubbock and the second is between …
… Letter 1585 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, John, [Sept 1854] Darwin sends Lubbock a beetle he …
… Letter 1720 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, John, 19 [July 1855] Darwin congratulates Lubbock on …
… Letter 1979 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, John, 27 Oct [1856] Darwin provides detailed …
… expert William Bernard Tegetmeier and the Scottish gardener John Scott, illustrate how the rigid …
… him to publish in his journal. The debate about John Scott Letter 3800 — …
… Letter 3805 — Darwin, C. R. to Scott, John, 12 Nov [1862] Darwin thanks Scott for bringing …
… day with Henslow; much had to be done. His friend, Alexander Charles Wood, has written to Capt. …

Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution

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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…

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… The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the …
… in relation to Sex’. Always precise in his accounting, Darwin reckoned that he had started writing …
… gathered on each of these topics was far more extensive than Darwin had anticipated. As a result, …
… and St George Jackson Mivart, and heated debates sparked by Darwin’s proposed election to the French …
… proofs of Descent in December, he wrote to his friend Charles Lyell, ‘thank all the powers above …
… anything which has happened to me for some weeks’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 13 January [1870] ) …
… corrections of style, the more grateful I shall be’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ) …
… who wd ever have thought that I shd. turn parson?’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ). …
… abt any thing so unimportant as the mind of man!’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [after 8 February …
… thro’ apes & savages at the moral sense of mankind’ ( letter to F. P. Cobbe, 23 March [1870?] …
… how metaphysics & physics form one great philosophy?’ ( letter from F. P. Cobbe, 28 March [1870 …
… in thanks for the drawing ( Correspondence vol. 16, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1868] …
… patients, but it did not confirm Duchenne’s findings ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March …
… who sent a sketch of a baby’s brows ( letter from L. C. Wedgwood, [5 May 1870] ). He also wrote to …
… (in retrograde direction) naturalist’ (letter to A. R.Wallace, 26 January [1870]). …
… in Paris. Quatrefages had just completed a book, Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs français …
… the mother and foetus during pregnancy. As a case in point, John Jenner Weir described the offspring …
… also discussed recent experiments by Louis Pasteur and John Tyndall that provided evidence for the …
… a memorandum. He asked his neighbour, the naturalist John Lubbock, who was now MP for Maidstone, to …
… reference to mankind of much importance ’ ( letter to John Lubbock, 17 July 1870 ). The motion to …

The "wicked book": Origin at 157

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Origin is 157 years old. (Probably) the most famous book in science was published on 24 November 1859. To celebrate we have uploaded hundreds of new images of letters, bringing the total number you can look at here to over 9000 representing more than…

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… book appeared. You can now see examples of letters to Darwin from nearly 250 different people, and …
… Russel Wallace , co-discoverer of natural selection; Charles Lyell , and Joseph Hooker , the …
… Asa Gray who was an important sounding board for Darwin’s emerging ideas, and Thomas Huxley …
… scrap from 1857 comparing his views on species to Darwin’s. Others, like Hugh Falconer , …
… the less well-known scientific collaborators who became Darwin's correspondents, Mary Treat …
… letters from family and friends, including letters between Charles and his wife Emma, and several of …
… was co-opted as an observer in Wales. Lucy Wedgwood , Darwin’s neice, was one of those who …
… of fish , but also about the origins of language . John Brodie Innes , vicar of the Darwins’ …
… of water thrown over me on rising William Darwin Fox , Charles ’s cousin and another …
… W. T. Thiselton-Dyer George Cupples H. C. Watson J. J. Weir H. W. Bates …
… Alfred Newton Frederick Smith A. G. Butler John Lubbock R. I. Lynch J. …

Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health

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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…

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… On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July …
… … of having grown older’. This portrait, the first of Darwin with his now famous beard, had been …
… of the five physicians Darwin had consulted in 1863. In a letter of 26[–7] March [1864] , Darwin …
… and he received more letters of advice from Jenner. In a letter of 15 December [1864] to the …
… As Darwin explained to his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of 30 November [1864] , ‘the …
… observations indoors ( Correspondence vol. 11). In a letter of [27 January 1864] , Darwin …
… of Dimorphism’ in Menyanthes ( letter from Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [20 May …
… of a paper by another of his orchid correspondents, John Traherne Moggridge, who in June sent him …
… of insect pollinators in 1864 and following years. John Scott again Much of Darwin’s …
… plight of another of Darwin’s fellow orchid-experimenters, John Scott. Their correspondence had been …
… five years. Scott felt that his superiors, James McNab and John Hutton Balfour, no longer treated …
… indomitable perseverance, and his knowledge’ ( letter to John Scott, 10 June 1864 ). Hooker met …
… support ‘on the grounds of science’ ( letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 ), but Scott declined …
… and animal-breeders. As in earlier years, Darwin consulted Charles William Crocker about his …
… curators at a great distance. Gray forwarded a letter from Charles Wright, a plant collector in Cuba …
… 5 September 1864 ). Fritz Müeller sent his book, Für Darwin , and Darwin had it translated by a …
… using such a periodical to defend himself, Hooker and Lyell discouraged him, and he decided to avoid …
… 1864 ). A notably rambling and long letter arrived from John Beck, a Shrewsbury schoolfellow of …
… by a merciful deity for the use of humankind ( letter from John Beck, 6 October 1864 ). …
… his brother Erasmus told him of a subscription fund for John William Colenso, bishop of Natal, South …
… Colenso was in England in 1864, socialising with Charles Lyell and other members of the London …
… again, to Ramsay’s view for third or fourth time; but Lyell says when I read his discussion in the …
… that a Neanderthal race once extended across Europe. John Lubbock mentioned his forthcoming volume …
… on intellectual & moral qualities’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] ). …
… so little degree the Council’s award’ ( letter to John Lubbock, 21 December [1864] ). In letters …

Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small

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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…

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… In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous …
… for scientific colleagues or their widows facing hardship. Darwin had suffered from poor health …
… ‘I feel a very old man, & my course is nearly run’ ( letter to Lawson Tait, 13 February 1882 ) …
… of his scientific friends quickly organised a campaign for Darwin to have greater public recognition …
… fertility of crosses between differently styled plants ( letter from Fritz Müller, 1 January 1882 …
… contents, if immersed for some hours in a weak solution of C. of Ammonia’. Darwin’s interest in root …
… In January, Darwin corresponded with George John Romanes about new varieties of sugar cane produced …
… Quarterly Review , owned by Darwin’s publisher John Murray, carried an anonymous article on the …
… or later write differently about evolution’ ( letter to John Murray, 21 January 1882 ). The author …
… our homes, would in this case greatly suffer’ ( letter to C. A. Kennard, 9 January 1882 ). Kennard …
… judged, intellectually his inferior, please ( letter from C. A. Kennard, 28 January 1882 ). …
… himself to so dreadful a man, as Huxley’ ( letter to John Collier, 16 February 1882 ). Collier had …
… be the same without my consciousness?’ ( letter from John Collier, 22 February 1882 ; T. H. Huxley …
… to take his daily strolls (Henrietta Emma Litchfield, ‘Charles Darwin’s death’, DAR 262.23: 2, p. 2) …
… and admirers. One of the most touching was from John Lubbock, whose interest in natural history at …
… we adjourned as a small tribute of respect’ (letter from John Lubbock to Francis Darwin, 20 April …
… snakes, centipedes, and spiders. The instructions were from Charles Lawrence Hughes, a fellow pupil …
… where he had witnessed an earthquake in 1835 ( letter from R. E. Alison, [March–July 1835 ]). …
… Holland, she mentions his warm reception on arrival: ‘Charles is as well as possible & in gayer …
… recommendations for annual medals. He strongly supported Charles Lyell for the Copley, the Royal …
… that the future Historian of the Natural Sciences, will rank Lyell’s labours as more influential in …
… point of view I think no man ranks in the same class with Lyell’ ( letter to William Sharpey, 22 …
… will be months before I am able to work’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [ c . 10 April 1864] ). To …
… Origin, a number of Darwin’s friends, Huxley, John Lubbock, and Charles Lyell, each addressed the …

Religion

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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…

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… the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same …
… nineteenth century were different in important ways. Many of Darwin's leading supporters were …
… their religious beliefs with evolutionary theory. Darwin's own writing, both in print and …
… much as possible. A number of correspondents tried to draw Darwin out on his own religious views, …
… of departure reviews of Origin . The second is a single letter from naturalist A. R. Wallace to …
… everything is the result of “brute force”. Letter 2855 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 3 …
… nature, as he is in a “muddle” on this issue. Letter 3256 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, …
… about an angel. Letter 3342 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 11 Dec [1861] Darwin …
… up revelation”. Letter 2534 — Kingsley, Charles to Darwin, C. R., 18 Nov 1859 …
… Letter 12041 — Darwin, C. R. to Fordyce, John, 7 May 1879 In this letter marked “private”, …
… on beauty. Letter 4752 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles, 22 Jan [1865] Darwin …
… of beauty by animals. Letter 5565 — Kingsley, Charles to Darwin, C. R., 6 June 1867 …
… and School Letter 1536 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, J. W. (b), 11 Oct [1853] Darwin …
… R. to Down School Board, [Nov–Dec 1873] Darwin, Sir John Lubbock, Ellen Frances Lubbock, and S. …
… vicar of Down is concerned about the rumours regarding John Robinson [curate of Down]. He will seek …

Origin

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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…

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… Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew …
… species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, …
… of the first public presentation of documents relating to Darwin’s species theory together with …
… Down for a few weeks to the Isle of Wight. Although Darwin and Wallace’s papers were …
… . In reply, Hooker provided reassurance by suggesting that Darwin might be able to have 100 to 150 …
… to whole affair to him: By an odd coincidence, M r Wallace in the Malay Archipelago sent …
… While still on the Isle of Wight, Darwin also heard from John Stevens Henslow, his old mentor and …
… make a large-sized pamphlet. ’ On the 4 October, in a letter to T. C. Eyton explaining his change …
… actively sought criticism from trusted readers like Hooker, Lyell, and Thomas Henry Huxley. He …
… buoyed up in January 1859, when he received a (now lost) letter from Wallace, expressing …
… his and Darwin’s species theory had had any effect on Lyell. ‘I think he is somewhat staggered,’ …
… views were apparent when he reported to Wallace that ‘ D r . Hooker has become almost as …
… men converts. My neighbour & excellent naturalist J. Lubbock is enthusiastic convert. ’ …
… concern now was to find a suitable publisher, and once again Lyell came to his aid. In late March, …
… of Darwin’s work. In light of this, Darwin asked Lyell whether he should ‘tell Murray that my Book …
… or the preservation of favoured races” ’, he told Lyell. On 31 March 1859, Darwin wrote to Murray …
… you on the same terms as those on which I publish for Sir Charles Lyell ’. Darwin was uneasy. …
… his friend George Frederick Pollock. The former, in a long letter to Murray, believed that Darwin …
… the reception of his book, he shared the proofs with Lyell. ‘I cannot too strongly express my …
… & God knows I have never shirked a difficulty’, he told Lyell on 20 September 1859, ‘ I am …
… I have been thinking that if I am much execrated as atheist &c, whether the

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